Irreversibility, discontinuities in phase space and information flow

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/20/16/034MaRDI QIDQ3763377zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard L. Liboff

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/20/16/034

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systemsLiouville equationfree expansionGibbs microentropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

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